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英格兰联合总会的回信 Freemasons meet in ‘Lodges’ of perhaps 20-60 people on average. Each Lodge meets between 4 and 8 times a year. During a normal evening. One of three ancient ceremonies are performed. These are morality plays which teach up to reflect on ourselves, our positions in the societies from which we are drawn and on those less fortunate than ourselves and what we might do to help them. 共济会员们在会庐中聚会,平均每次聚会有20至60人参与。每个庐每年聚会4至8次。通常来说,三个古老的仪式之中的其中一个会在会议中进行。这些“寓意剧”提醒我们在社会中的定位,提醒我们这个社会中有着许多比我们不幸的人,提醒我们在必要时要向他们伸出援手。 The first ceremony brings a candidate into freemasonry. It reflects upon their birth Reminding them that we all arrive the same way and at that moment in life are born Equal. Some will do better than others as life progresses, and we are taught than those who Do have a responsibility to those less fortunate 第一级的仪式将候选人带入共济会,主要体现了人的出生。提醒我们都是通过同样的方式来到这个世界上,我们生来平等。有些人会取得比别人更大的成就,我们教育这些人,让这些人知道他们有义务去帮助比他们不幸的人。 The second ceremony (the second degree) invites us to improve ourselves, through education into better people and to reflect on how we behave though life. 第二级的仪式提醒我们要通过不断的学习完善自己,让自己成为更好的人,也提醒着我们去思考如何在生活中做得更好。 The third ceremony (the third degree) reminds us that we are mortal; that we only have so Long in this world and that we should be sure that we are remembered for the right reasons. 第三级的仪式提醒我们都是凡人,我们的生命是有限的,我们仅仅会因为这个世界作出了贡献才能被世人所铭记。 The ceremonies are usually followed by a dinner where members get to know each other. This is what happens in our meetings – and very rarely anything else. 仪式后通常会有晚餐,这顿晚餐能让共济会成员们互相认识,增进感情。 以上便是我们会议的内容,通常也不会有其他的内容。
共济会/美生会的四种美德-节制、坚忍、审慎及正义 This beautiful hand-colored print depicts the Four Cardinal Virtues, the practice of which is inculcated in the First or Entered Apprentice Degree of Freemasonry and are thus explained. Temperance - The Freemason who properly appreciates the secrets which he has solemnly promised never to revel, will not, by yielding to the unrestrained call of appetite, permit reason and judgment to lose their seats, and subject himself, by the indulgence in habits of excess, to discover that which should be concealed, and thus merit and receive the scorn and detestation of his Brethren. And lest any Brother should forget the danger to which he is exposed in the unguarded hours of dissipation, the virtue of temperance is wisely impressed upon his memory, by its reference to one of the most solemn portions of the ceremony of initiation. Some Freemasons, very properly condemning the vice of intemperance and abhorring its effects, have been unwisely led to confound temperance with total abstinence in a Masonic application, and resolutions have sometimes been proposed in Grand Lodges which declare the use of stimulating liquors in any quantity a Masonic offense. But the law of Freemasonry authorizes no such regulation. It leaves to every man the indulgence of his own tastes within due limits, and demands not abstinence, but only moderation and temperance, in anything not actually wrong. Fortitude - instructs the worthy Freemason to bear the ills of life with becoming resignation, "taking up arms against a sea of trouble," but, by its intimate connection with a portion of our ceremonies, it teaches the candidate to let no dangers shake, no pains dissolve the inviolable fidelity he owes to the trusts reposed in him. Or, in the words of the old Prestonian lecture, it is "a fence or security against any attack that might be made upon him by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of our Royal Secrets." Prudence - Preston first introduced it into the Entered Apprentice Degree as referring to what was then, and long before had been called the Four Principal Signs, but which are now known as the Perfect Points of Entrance. Preston's eulogium on prudence differs from that used in the lectures of the United States, which was composed by Webb. It is in these words: "Prudence is the true guide to human understanding, and consists in judging and determining with propriety what is to be said or done upon all our occasions, what dangers we should endeavor to avoid, and how to act in all our difficulties." Justice - The Freemason who remembers how emphatically he has been charged to preserve an upright position in all his dealings with mankind, should never fail to act justly to himself, to his Brethren, and to the world. This is the corner-stone on which alone he can expect "to erect a superstructure alike honorable to himself and to the Fraternity." In iconology, the general science pertaining to images, Justice is usually represented as a matron, her eyes bandaged, holding in one hand a sword and in the other a pair of scales at equipoise. But in Freemasonry the true symbol of Justice, as illustrated in the First Degree, is the feet firmly planted on the ground, and the body upright.
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